Pliers



Dec. 8, 1936. P. VERTES 2,063,532

, PLIERS Original Filed Aug. 20, 1935 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 7 N N Inventor-7. Vrfes A Home} P. VERTES Dec. 8, 1936.

PLIERS Original Filed Aug. 20, 1936 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Allomey UNITEDSTATES PATENT OFFliIE PLIERS Peter Vertes, North Tarrytown, N. Y.,assignor of one-half to Nick Vecsei, North Tarrytown,

Application August 20, 1935, Serial No. 37,080 Renewed June 9, 1936 2Claims. (Cl. 81-50) The present invention relates to pliers and From theabove detailed description it will be the object of the inventionresides in the proreadily appreciated that by moving the handles visionof efiicient, easily operated and effective II toward and away from eachother the jaws means for providing pliers with a pair of jaws J may bemoved toward and away from each 5 the gripping faces of which move so asto be other so that the gripping faces 9 thereof are 5 disposed at alltimes in parallelism with each disposed in parallelism whereby a moreeven other. grip is possible on the object being worked on Anotherimportant object of the invention rethan with the ordinary pliers. sidesin the provision of pliers of this nature It i thought that theconstruction, operalO which are Simple in t u tie inexpensive tion,utility and advantages of this invention 10 to manufacture, thoroughlyefiieient a d e will now be quite apparent without a more deable in useand otherwise well adapted for the tailed description thereof. purposefor which they are designed. The present embodiment of the invention hasWith t e above a d u u Other bjects been described in considerabledetail merely for 5 in view as will appear as the description prothepurposes of exemplification since in actual ceeds, the inventionconsists in certain novel practice it attains the features of advantagefeatures of construction, and in the combinaenumerated as desirable inthe statement of the tion and arrangement of parts as will be hereinntion and th above description.

inafter more fully described and claimed. It will be apparent thatchanges in th In the draWingSI tails of construction, and in thecombination 20 Figure 1 is a Side elevation of a D of pliers andarrangement of parts may be resorted to embodying e features of yiIlVentiOnwithout departig from the spirit or scope of Figure 2 is anedge elevation thereof. the invention as hereinafter claimed or sacri-Figure 3 is a side elevation thereof showing ficing any of itsadvantages. the jaws in open position. What is claimed is: 25

Figure 4 is a perspective view of one of the 1. A pair of pliers of theclass described comjaws. prising a T-shaped shank member having a Figure5 is a perspective view of the shank shank with a pair of arms extendingin oppomember. site directions therefrom, the arms having slotsReferring to the drawings in detail it W l and the shank having slots,jaws having sleeves 30 be seen that there is a shank member denotedslidable on the arms, a pair of handles, pivot generally y the letter sand Comprising a bolts mounted in the handles through the slot shank 5the lower end of which has a longiin the shank and pivot bolts in theterminals of tudinally extending slot 6 and the head arms the handlesextending through the sleeves and 1, 1 of which are provided withlongitudinally the slots of the arms. 5

extending Slots JeWS J are provided with 2. A pair of pliers of theclass described comserrated gripping faces 9 and at their bottomsprising a T-shaped shank member having a with non-circular sleeves It toslide over the shank with a pair of arms extending in oppoarms 1. Curvedhandles II have crossing p site directions therefrom, the arms havingslots tions l2 terminating in Yokes Straddling the and the shank havingslots, jaws having sleeves 40 sleeves l0 and. having bolts or the likel5 exl m on th rms, pair of handles each tending through the terminalsthereof and handle having one end portion offset from the through Ope inthe Sleeves and through other end portion, the offset portionsterminatthe slots 8. The handles II are pivotal y e0 ing in yokes, pivotbolts mounted in the han- 5 eeted together by bolts H which extend dlesthrough the slot in the shank and pivot 5 t o e Slot The ends of thehandles bolts in the terminals of the yokes extending betw en the ross np ns 12 and the jaws through the sleeves and the slots of the arms.

J are offset from the gripping ends of the handles. PETER VERTES.

